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brackenContributor

asked in Automation

Issues with ArcGIS Online webhook

To start out, I am new to FME and to webhooks (or web mapping/web development in general). I am trying to set up a webhook to send an email when a user updates or creates a feature in an ArcGIS Online feature service. I have been able to successfully set up webhooks with Survey123 using the process in this article. Webhooks seem to be a relatively new feature in AGOL. I have only found this Esri article, and it was just from August of this year. The problem I'm having is that I am able to send the webhook to webhook.site and Integromat (as is described in the Esri article linked above), but when I the webhook sends the payload to the webhook trigger in FME server, the log file doesn't give me the JSON that I get from webhook.site and Integromat, I get the following string of characters:cGF5bG9hZD1bDQogIHsNCiAgICAibmFtZSIgOiAiU3VydmV5MTIzVGVzdFdlYmhvb2siLCANCiAgICAibGF5ZXJJZCIgOiAwLCANCiAgICAib3JnSWQiIDogInBBMm5FVm5CNnRxdXhnT1ciLCANCiAgICAic2VydmljZU5hbWUiIDogInN1cnZleTEyM19

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3 years ago

929marc

asked in Architecture

SpatialSorter

Hello all, I am taking the Basic Course in Safe website and I am really enjoying using this fantastic software. I am doing the exercise called Residential Garbage Collection Zones and I do not understand the SpatialSorter Step (This is the link). The ExpressionEvaluator takes the TotalResident attribute for each feature and divides it by 5 (rounding the result), creating an extra attribute called GroupSize where each value is 109. The SpatialSorter, group the points in spatial proximity and create an extra attribute called GroupId. What I do not understand is how the 109 value (which is the attribute GrupSize) is used to create the GruoupId. What the calculation the SpatialSorter is doing?Why if I give a value different than 109 in GrupSize, the SpatialSorter gives me more or less GroupId (5 or 9 for example). I see as the Spatial sorter is giving the right result, the calculation is absolutely correct but I cannot understand the calculation that SpatialSorter is doing. Thank you

When running a workspace with an xmlfragmenter and xmlappender on with fmedesktop everything is going fine. But publishing it to fme server en running it there I get the following error. element name expected

Bringing the fragments together with the xmlappener running on fme server 2020.1.3 gives an error:193 2020-12-11 16:35:05 | element name expected194 2020-12-11 16:35:05 | An error occurred while appending an XML document: 'element name expected'. The parsing fragment is identified by: 'xml_fragment'

3 years ago

dustinInfluencer

asked in Architecture

FME Extension for ArcGIS (10.8.1)

After upgrading ArcGIS from 10.7 to 10.8.1, we no longer can see FME Extension for ArcGIS in the Integration Console as an option. We are on FME2019, build 19617. We have tried installing/reinstalling both ESRI and FME in different orders, but with no luck. Both are 32-bit installations. Is this extension in 2019 supported by 10.8.1, or would we need to upgrade to FME2020?

Automation to email Survey123 submissions including image attachments

We are trying to use FME Server/Desktop to achieve the following:1. Intercept Survey123 submissions using webhooks - this works well.2. Conditionally send an email containing submitted data - this works as well.3. Include any photos attached to the survey submission - this part we can't get to work. Most submissions do not include photos. We are novices with FME.Surely someone has had this requirement before. If so, can you please share your solution?

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3 years ago

mferwerda1111Participant

asked in General

Active Directory passwords

We are getting ready to start using AD authentication with FME Server, so when a user changes their AD password, do they need to manually update it in the FME Server connection, or does that synch somehow with Active Directory ?

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3 years ago

dewrightcoContributor

asked in General

Python Script to submit a job to FME Server

I am looking for a good/best-practices example python script the can check for a token for the user, if not valid will request one and then execute a set workspace. Anyone have anything they are willing to share?

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3 years ago

smolContributor

asked in General

System Cleanup not deleting files or folders

In order to control the file system size I have setup a automatic System Cleanup that works on one of our custom shared resources. This was setup a couple of days ago, but it seems that this process was not run. Is there a place where I can see the System Cleanup runs? Neither in the logs or jobs could I find any reference to this.Is there a setting at what time of the day this is run?What privileges are needed for the service to delete the files?What defines the filesystem user for, for example, the "fmeupload" files?I have used the following System Cleanup task definition, which should be run every day. However, in the folder structure I can see folders and files older than 1 month already. UpdateAfter restarting the FME Core, it now correctly logs the event of checking if it can delete the logs once every day. It however does not delete the logs. It looks like that all the files are owned by "root:root". Not something I would expect from a service ran by "f

FME Server hostname when sending e-mails

Hi everybody, where can I find (ad eventually set) the hostname FME Server uses when sending e-mails? Thanks!

Why can a workspace started in automation not find a path

Why can a workspace started in automation not find a path, when the workspace itself run by hand works fine. I have a workspace that is working fine and runs data from a certain path as shown. So the reader is configured correctly.And when starting the workflow the file path is correct.Now when the same workspace is triggered by the automation flow it can't find the file anymore, because a backslash has been dropped from the path?And this continues for all the readers?How is this possible? I tried to change the monitored path of the automation flow but the end result is the same? The path is highlighted in yellow, and after this a backslash should be present but now it inserts the filename directly. When I open the workspace mentioned in the automation, the path is the one with thhe missing backslash at the end of the path name.When I repelace all the entrys here with the correct path with backslash it is working. So when changing a workspace, should you remove all workspaces in a

3 years ago

alex_c

asked in General

How to un-install a package from FME Server

A package in the form of a fpkg file was installed during the upload of a new workspace. How can the package be uninstalled from FME server

291

3 years ago

aguanContributor

asked in Automation

How to dynamically feed different parameter values to a workspace in the server Automation?

I have a workspace that takes one published parameter to run through. I want to set up a FME server weekly automation, and each weekly run includes running the workspace multiple times, each with a different parameter value. The parameter values are stored in a text file. Seems to be simple? But I can't think of a good way to do this. Still new to the FME server automation. I am using FME 2019.2.1, both desktop and server.

Hi. Is it possible to move the logo image on the server apps ?

The default position is center screen for the logo on server apps. I was wondering if it possible to move it left aligned for branding continuity Thank you very much

3 years ago

zzupljaninContributor

asked in Automation

IMAP for gmail does not work

Hello, I've tried to set up everything that FME Knowledge offers. Still I can't seem to configure my gmail account to trigger an automation on incoming mail. I've tried configuring 2-step verification and/or sign in from less secure app. Message in log of automation is: Failed to connect to email server. Please check IMAP settings and insure IMAP is enabled for the email account. Error message: null IMAP settings are good and IMAP is enabled for my account. Has anyone had a similar problem that you managed to solve? I'm using FME Server 2019.

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3 years ago

johannafalkContributor

asked in Automation

Best practice for monitoring Workspace success/failure using Email

Hello FME Community! In my company, we have several workspaces which run on a regular interval. Some are simple schedules and most are inside automations also triggered by schedules. The goal is to inform specific people inside my company via email if a workspace failes to run on the server. Up to now, we have implemented topics and subscriptions to those topics that people get emails. However, since the email, triggered from a topic, does not contain any information about the workspace which failed inside the automation, I am not sure if this is the way to go. I also thought about sending emails directly from the automations. But since it does not offer any templates, I have to fill the email content manually (considering that multiple people receive the email, it requires quite some manual effort). Could you offer me some guidance, or best practice how to implement a notification service that is suitable for our need? Thanks, Johanna

Hi all; I just started learning fme server. I want to create a web service using the rest api. I want to show the data in my database as json. Is there a sample application? What are the fme server settings? Thank you.

Upload Error: Failed to Parse multipart servlet request.

When I try to upload any file using the Web interface I get an error message. I have attached the screenshot here. Any suggestions? FME Server 2020.1 Build 20614

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3 years ago

warrendevEnthusiast

asked in General

FME Server Reading Email Body as Attachment

I am running FME Server 2020.2 and have an automation setup for email polling (IMAP) that triggers a workspace when new emails arrive. For whatever reason when a new email arrives, FME Server passes an empty email.body key and stores the text in the email body as an attachment. This inbox is a shared inbox in Office365. Any ideas as to why it would be parsing the email body as an attachment? Here is an example of the FME_TOPIC_MESSAGE: { "email.to": "REDACTED", "email.subject": "OPUS solution : JTT_PECOS_1.20o OP1606798966776", "email.attachment": "C:\\ProgramData\\Safe Software\\FME Server\\resources\\system\\temp\\emailattachments\\20201130230450-OPUS_Result_Parsing-OPUS_solution__JTT_PECOS_1.20o_OP1606798966776\\attachment_0", "email.received": "Mon Nov 30 23:04:50 CST 2020", "source": "imap", "time": "2020-11-30T23:05:49-06:00", "email.from": "opus@ngs.noaa.gov", "email.sent": "Mon Nov 30 23:04:45 CST 2020", "email.attachments": "C:\\ProgramData\\Safe Software\\FME Server

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3 years ago

helmoet

asked in Architecture

Stresstest FME Server

Hi, this is not the kind of question one wants to ask, since it seems almost unethical to demolish a really lovely product, but has anyone ever had any ideas on a stresstest for FME Server? A workspace that eats every bit of memory on a 64bit system, or that fires new jobs every milisecond, or poking around diffent file contents on the harddisk? Put the FME Server postgres database under a ddos attack? Or anything else that tries to - respectfully said - 'break it down'?

3 years ago

nbaldwin041

asked in Architecture

Having some trouble with my Augmented Reality Workflows...

Hello everyone! My company is looking into utilizing SAFE's Augmented Reality tools! We are currently testing the application and are working on becoming familiar with the process at hand. I am attempting to create a "mock" workflow using Mr. Dmitri Bagh's 'City of Coaquitlam' model as my basis. I created a small google document that will show a single buried cable that I generated in ArcMap. However, I keep failing at the end of the workflow. Making it to the 'bufferer' tool before the 3D forcer and extruder. We will want to look at larger datasets in the future, and I figured this workflow may be the best to accommodate. I have generated smaller AR models with using the methods found in the '3D Buffered Pipeline' examples. But struggle to generate large scale systems. In that workflow, I am also unable to anchor the gas pipe sample, and scale to an appropriate size/show at ground level. I will attach my workspaces. Would anyone have any tips

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3 years ago

alfonsContributor

asked in Automation

Call a FME workbench from python with dynamic arguments?

Hello, I would like to run a workbench via Python. The workflow within the script is always the same. Only the input and output directories change.For this purpose I have written a function and call it accordingly.def fme_workbench(workbench, argument): FME_command = '"C:\Program Files\\FME\\fme.exe" ' + workbench + ' ' + argument result = subprocess.Popen(FME_command) result.wait()argument = '--Name_Veg4m_umhuellend "' + str(kachelnummer) + '_veg4m_hull" --Name_Veg4m_Loecher "' + str(kachelnummer) + '_veg4m_holes" --SourceDataset_ESRISHAPE_5 "' + os.path.join(output_dir, str(Mission), 'Lidar_RAW', str(kachelnummer), 'Output\\*.shp') + '" --FEATURE_TYPES "" DestDataset_ESRISHAPE "' + os.path.join(output_dir, str(Mission), 'Lidar_RAW', str(kachelnummer), 'Output') + '"' fme_workbench(os.path.join(script_dir, 'EB_0_Aufbereitung_klassierte_Vegetation.fmw'), argument)the following variables are dynamic and can change:kachelnummerMission calling the Workbench f

342

3 years ago

virtualcitymattEvangelist

asked in General

Token from call to run workspace. Are permissions inherited by subsequent jobs/subscriptions

I've just been thinking about required permissions for a project I've been working on. The initial workspace is triggered via REST call (jobSubmitter). Depending on success or failure a topic gets triggered which may fire a subsequent workspace. In one of these workspaces it needs to access the FME job history data via a rest call. I've set up a web connection. My question is, does the initial token I use for the JobSubmitter need to have access to the job table (and web connection)? or are permissions used based on the owner of the subscription workspace or the subscription itself? Any best practices here?

3 years ago

takashiContributor

asked in Automation

FME Server Automation Trigger Schedule Type "Basic" Not Working

Hello,FME Server 2019.2 build 19801 running with FME CloudI think that these two settings for a Trigger in an Automation configuration should be equivalent, but the left setting - Schedule Type "Basic" didn't trigger any action actually, whereas the right setting - "Repeat On Interval" is working as expected.Am I missing something? Or it was a defect on the "Basic" type and has been fixed already in a newer version?

Datastream job keeps restarting

Hello, I created a workspace to stream data to my PowerBI client through a webhook. This works fine in 1 project but in my new it doesn't work. The workspace comes in jobs > running and when it's done the job just restarts. Thus no data is being streamed to my Power BI client. Server version: FME Server 2019.2.3 Build 19822 - win64 Am I missing something here? Edit: The webhook works just fine :)

Hello from FME Expert: Holly Coxon

Hi! I’m Holly, one of the FME Server Technology Experts at Safe Software. I’ve been a member of the Customer Success team since June 2018 (Wow I can’t believe it’s been 2 years already!). Prior to this I briefly worked for one of our UK Partners where I was first exposed to the magic that is FME. My role consists of providing technical support, primarily for our FME Server product, through a variety of platforms including Cases, Live Chat and the Community. You’ll find my name behind some of the Knowledge Base content and if you tune into our live training or webinars you may catch me here as well. Essentially I exist to help you get the most out of FME! Away from my desk (now dining table) you'll find me out exploring the beautiful areas surrounding Vancouver that I’m lucky enough to call home.

3 years ago

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